France invaded Mexico under Emperor Napoleon III, citing unpaid debts as a pretext to expand French influence and establish a ...

Shortly after D-Day during World War II, French resistance fighters took 47 captured German soldiers to a small wooded area in southwest-central France.

Madeleine Riffaud, who fought for Paris with French Resistance, dies at 100 Ms. Riffaud was one of the last links to the celebrated ranks of French women who joined the Resistance during World War II.

France's northern coast has long been fortified against invasion, with Nazi bunkers in World War II and pre-French Revolution ...

There is no real French equivalent, although the film that comes closest is René Clément’s Bataille du rail (The Battle of the Rails). Filmed in the summer of 1945, within a year of France’s ...

PARIS -- France has struggled to kick its smoking habit. A new public health decree published Saturday aims to change that.

As of July 1, France has implemented a sweeping nationwide ban on smoking in outdoor areas popular with children-including ...

Julien Blanc, a historian of the Nazi Occupation and French Resistance, says the photographs are different from the propaganda shots taken by Nazi-authorized photographers.

Only slowly and gradually, when it became apparent that the Germans had no intention of treating France as a free and independent country, did French resistance begin to take shape. The peasants in ...

France on Thursday demanded the immediate release of two of its citizens held in Iran for more than three years, saying ...

Strasbourg (France) (AFP) — Europe’s top human rights court on Thursday ruled France was within its rights to hand suspended ...

French poet, journalist, war correspondent and member of the French Resistance, Madeleine Riffaud, poses during a photo session at her home in Paris, on June 17, 2024.